Alberta Scientists Discover Largest-Ever Cache of Dinosaur Bones

Cryolithic writes "The largest cache of dinosaur bones ever found has been unearthed in Alberta. From the article: '... officials at the Royal Tyrrell Museum say the Hilda site provides the first solid evidence that some horned dinosaur herds were much larger than previously thought, with numbers comfortably in the high hundreds to low thousands. ... Rather than picturing the animals as drowning while crossing a river, a classic scenario that has been used to explain bonebed occurrences at many sites in Alberta, the research team interpreted the vast coastal landscape as being submerged during tropical storms or hurricanes. With no high ground to escape to, most of the members of the herd drowned in the rising coastal waters. Carcasses were deposited in clumps across kilometers of ancient landscape as floodwaters receded.'"

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Re:It's not what it would seem.

[Randle_Revar]

>Drumheller (the city/town in which the Royal Tyrell Museum resides) would probably be the best place for a kid to grow up

Except for the part where it is in Alberta, the Texas of the North.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Tyrell (only went there twice as a kid, it's a fair drive from Montana), and Canada is pretty cool, but Alberta in general is only suitable for visiting (sorry, I'm just more of a BC/Washington coastal type of guy).

>Alberta is also known for its Oilsands, one of Canada's sources for oil nowawdays, and if I had to venture a guess, its because we had lots and lots of dinosaurs.

Oil isn't dinosaurs. Oil is mostly marine in origin and mostly from single cell algae. As far as age, Alberta does have plenty of Cretaceous-origin oil (from the Cretaceous Seaway/Western Interior Seaway - the flood plains that bordered it were responsible for today's spectacular dino fossil beds), but there is also a lot of Mississippian and Devonian oil.